On Wednesday Paul Ryan, Nancy Pelosi, Mitch McConnell, and Harry Reid sent a letter to Todd Valentine of the National Association of State Election directors.

The leaders of Congress said “the states face the challenge of malefactors that are seeking to use cyberattacks to disrupt the administration of our elections” and urged the association to work with the Department of Homeland Security and “public and private sector resources” to secure the election system. They also called for designating the election system as critical infrastructure.

In August the Department of Homeland Security director Jeh Johnson said the government “should carefully consider whether our election system, our election process, is critical infrastructure like the financial sector, like the power grid.”

“There’s a vital national interest in our election process, so I do think we need to consider whether it should be considered by my department and others critical infrastructure,” he added.

Johnson made his remarks after Obama ordered the CIA’s Foreign Denial and Deception Committee to investigate the hacking of voter registration databases in Arizona and Illinois. The Illinois hack occurred in late July. It brought down the state’s voter registration for 10 days and compromised data on as many as 200,000 registered voters. The Arizona intrusion was less significant. It allegedly introduced malware into the voter registration system but data was not stolen.

Neither hack endangered the voting system or attempted to influence the election.

Blame for the attacks was immediately affixed to Russia and became part of a larger propaganda campaign to convince the American people Vladimir Putin and the Russians are attempting to sabotage the election.

There is, however, no evidence Russia is engaged in an attempt to influence the election. The FBI admitted it has no idea who is responsible.

Despite this, NBC reported the “consensus among U.S. intelligence analysts is that Russia is seeking to undermine confidence in the U.S. system, using the hacks into the Democratic National Committee, state election systems and other targets that have yet to be made public, as part of a larger campaign.”

Johnson weighed in on election system cyberattacks prior to the Illinois and Arizona intrusions. “We should carefully consider whether our election system, our election process, is critical infrastructure like the financial sector, like the power grid,” he said.

“There’s a vital national interest in our election process, so I do think we need to consider whether it should be considered by my department and others critical infrastructure.”

The comments drew sharp criticism.

“That confirms what another high-level source who attended a White House meeting last week said – that DHS officials admitted they had no evidence of any ‘credible threat’ of a cyber-attack,” Hans von Spakovsky wrote for the Conservative Review on August 17. “But designating the nation’s election system as ‘critical infrastructure’ under a post 9/11 federal statute may be a way for the administration to get Justice Department lawyers, the FBI, and DHS staff into polling places they would otherwise have no legal right to access, which would enable them to interfere with election administration procedures around the country.”

The Democrats have already interfered with the election system. In July a WikiLeaks email dump revealed there had been a plot to smear Bernie Sanders and to hand the Democratic nomination to Clinton. Moreover, there was collusion between the DNC and the establishment media to undermine Sanders.

More directly, during the California primary independent voters were disenfranchised. A grassroots organization, Watch The Vote, collected complaints to show a civil grand jury the various ways the election was rigged. Additionally, according to a CBS investigation, votes were cast in Southern California by dead people.

“What it does is every single vote that’s cast by a dead voter actually cancels out a vote of a lawful voter cause if they voted for one candidate and you voted let’s say for another, your vote got canceled out,” said Ellen Swensen of True the Vote.

Jeb Johnson and the government should not be looking at Russia, but the Democrats and others documented to have manipulated the vote.

60 Comments

Hacking heck ! we need to have paper trails on every voting machine and every voter must have a photo ID these are so easy to get, it doesnt create any hardship to any group of people in fact they could use their Food Stamp photo ID or they should be made available to most every government office. Dead voters and illegal aliens who have obtained illegal voter registration must be rooted out. Its not a hardship to anyone but it is a fair way to protect the rights of every citizen

If you know the voting system you would know that every voter that votes is checked out to make sure they are Citizens. Voters only get to vote once. If they’re not on our roster they can do a provisional ballot and it will be checked out to make sure she/he is a real person, and a citizen. I had heard some people were dead, and voted. The Reason it was caught was because it is Checked Out.

I agree with your comment,but what happens if the Federal system institutes a
voting machine only situation,the whole voting situation would be completely compromised….if the voting was kept on paper your idea would work,but the NWO is going cashless and paper less….to save the rainforsts and for global warming reasons no doubt…?
P.S. I am getting sick of having to re-type NWO ,because the computer is spelling my spelling as now,,fuc#ing machines telling us what we think,or if the fridge/car door is left open,step by step the now moves on.

With motor-voter registration (register when you get your driver’s license in states that issue licenses regardless of citizenship), same-day registration (where you can register in half a dozen precincts on election day), and no voter ID requirement, it is an open invitation for fraud. How do we get more votes in a precinct than there are registered voters? In my area, people I know died six years ago are still on the voter rolls.

They won’t get counted. Unless your alive and a Citizen and are 18 or older, your vote will be counted.
Your putting all this on Democrats. We already know how the system works. So I doubt it’s Democrats doing it, and it sure as hell isn’t President Obama, nor anyone in the Democratic Party, because every person that Voted in Another State will be tossed out and only the first ballot they voted will count. Every bad vote takes a Vote away from that party. I Know Russia wants Trump to Win, they already hacked into the DNC emails, and Trumps campaign manager was a born-and-raised Russian After the emails were hacked into, Trump let his manager leave. Recently he has Another Russian born & raised working for him. Kind of makes you wonder huh. Trump on TV ask Russia to help him Win. On TV he kept saying he likes the Way Putin runs his Country, and that he Admires Putin. I really think that is strange.
Why would Democrats do such a thing when a good vote will be tossed out for every bad one. That’s defeating its party. So I still will say it’s not the Democrats doing it.

Quite frankly, I’m more inclined to believe the Homeland Security Department headed by Jeh Johnson under the direction of the Obama Administration and the liberal socialist communist democrat party is the hacker rather than anyone else. Asking any department under the direction of Barack Obama to insure honesty in the voting is like assigning Wiley Fox to guard your chicken coop (or Bill Clinton to watch the hen house).

Bill Clinton would volunteer to watch your young daughter while you are away. I think he needs to be hung up side down by his pecker and then cut the thing off, then watch his voice change. But of course Hillary will scream at you and threaten you with any and all things. She is just his pimp.

So you know that to be fact, or your just trying to start rumors? Don’t answer.
Your thinking is cause he fooled around he’s a molester. So let’s see Trump Cheated on his first wife with other women, and got a Mistress out of the bunch. Wife one found out like most wife’s do. She divorced him. He married his Mistress, who he Cheated on LOL wonders never cease. Then he got a Nude Model, mistress/wife2 divorced him, He married Nude Model wife #3. Then at one of his. Rally’s when his Children were there he rubbed his adult daughter’s Ads and said, “If she wasn’t My Daughter, I would Do her” To Me that is Disgusting. Because Hillary Clinton didn’t divorce her husband she is his pimp. Well if that’s the case All Trumps Wives Are Pimps to. Something is Wrong with your thinking.

True DHS couldn’t catch a cold. Besides if they caught any voter fraud FBI an DOJ wouldn’t charge them because the votes would most difinitly be for the hildabeast. We all know what a love affair FBI & DOJ has for hildabeast. They get all goofy and start dulling koolaid out of the corners of their mouths!!!!!!!

I have come to a realization. This is strictly a Republican sight. You people Don’t want the truth you will believe all the hogwash this sight is telling you. Trump is a criminal and an idiot all you people are just love the Trump. You can go head and bash Hillary and make all the excuses why Trump oat The Debate Big Time. No One lost it but Himself. Candy coat it if you must. Maybe some of you need to see a head doctor with all the fantasy stories you have about Hillary Clinton & the Democratic Party. That’s including the government which is also part of the majority is Republican so your cutting yourselves down. Big Time. I am A Democrat and after reading all your Garbage, I am out of here.

The reality is that you either vote for the red team or the blue team,both sides are controlled by the elite [ill eat] so no matter which side you vote for….the illuminati gets in….check out this for a truth pill if you will….cuttingthroughthematrix.com

Personally speaking, those who cheat during the election process, should be charged, tried, convicted and jailed . They should be removed from public office and banned for life from ever participation in any election process ever again. Perhaps, they should be deported to a country that has no election process, and made to live as an outcast. Kind of like the government does to drug offenders. Strip them of their wealth, (which was most certainly gained through illegal means, and made to spend time in the SAFE P program and be taught to be snitches just like any other felon who breaks the law

This man has it the nail square on the head.
Where are all the lawsuits that were filed in regard to Hilliary people stealing the votes in 11 states from Bernie Sanders? What happened to all those different states Attorney Generals filing complaints against stealing the real election results from Bernie Sanders? Colorado,Arizona,California and all the other states?

I wouldn’t trust this government to have control of our election results before the people find out the results. The people who would be given oversight and responsibility are Political Hacks as corrupt as we’ve seen recently in DOJ, IRS, DHS and FBI. Theis better not be allowed to progress even in discussions, as it might be invoke by “Presidential Decree”.

I thought you were “out of here”? Maybe you need to start paying a little more attention.. It’s a set up to make sure your darling Hillary wins since she can’t drum up support on her own. Count the attendees to her rallies versus the attendees to Trump’s rallies. She can’t fill a small town high school gym yet Trump can fill a pro football stadium. I wonder why…

That’s a bunch of hogwash again. Everyone is against poor little Trump. Who rubbed his daughter’s Ass up on stage at a Rally and said If She Wasn’t My Daughter, I Would Do Her. He is a sicko, and What I had heard, he had Raped a 13 year old, and he threatened her if she told. Well she did. So stick up for poor little sicko Trump.

The scumbag demorrhoids know they’re in deep doo-doo. This is obamas and soros shot at the NWO, starting riots and martial law which will ultimately result in the postponement of the elections. Watch the markets and the dollar tank within a few weeks. Lots of chaos and bloodshed coming.

This is a prime and valid reason to make mandatory picture ID’s necessary to vote. The capability of getting ONE per person is available to everyone. There is NO EXCUSE!! A dead person will not have a current picture ID. This should be the first qualification to vote.

I’ve been voting for 45yrs. And have always had to use a voter registration card or picture Id. My people have been in this state 234yrs. What the he’ll is it with this bunch of damn squatters that makes them think the he’ll their different from anybody esle. Demoroids have played the race card on this saying that blacks are the target which is another one of their BS scams. He’ll all my black friends has driver license or voter ID. What it is really about is getting all these illegals registered they are not citizens and don’t need to take part in our election process.

They can’t Vote. If there Not Citizen of the United States, if they vote it will be tossed out. Just because their illegal they have to show their birth certificate to get a license. It state on it, plus The register of Voters has checked out all Listed Voters if there Not Citizens they throw out all the illegals. If they show up at a Polling place and there name isn’t on the Roster. If they still want to vote they fill out an envelope name address etc; and their given a provisional ballot. It’s put into the envelope they filled out, and it is checked out as soon as the Black Box which is under lock and key gets to that department. Not a Citizen, or Dead, does Not Count, and tossed out. I have worked over 18 elections in my City, and this is the process. Nobody knows if your a Republican or a Democrat when you work as a Poll Worker. That’s the best way because your together from 6:00 AM to at least 9: or 10:00 AM. You get 1 hour for lunch and 1 hour for dinner, but all have to work from 5:30 PM til Closing.

It was 6:00 AM until 9: or 10:00AM that the time polls open at 7:00 AM closed at 8:00PM, but we still have to close up, take the voters polling stands down, put all the things away, and usually the inspector & judge Take all the important things back including the Black Box that have provisional ballots and all of the vote by mail envelopes go to be checked and counted. People should really check things out for themselves, though instead of reading about it and believing it as gospel, cause it isn’t.
Check this Out. Trumps University is Illegal Defunct University. He never filed the needed papers.
Trumps Foundation, it’s been around a long time. Trump has been paying off his Law Suits he lost in Court Already, with money people Donated, and Trump put Charities down for them. He Never Filed Papers to make his Foundation Legal. Now all the people that claimed Donations are going to be audited. Cause Trump isn’t A Charity. Check out even Google will tell you, or go to http://www.snoops.com or Urban Legends but I believe they merged with snoops. Happy Checking Out Facts Not Fiction.

That is simple have paper ballots and have everyone that votes have an electronic fingerprint taken at the time of registry and at the voting booth and anyone found to be voting more then once, voting in the wrong place or illegally would have a mandatory 5 year prison sentence with no possibility of parole, clemency, or pardon and loose their voting rights forever.
If these were in effect in 20088 and 2012 Obama would not be president an Hillary would not stand a chance.

But bedoins will still vote for Obama and clinton. For a simple reason that if they don’t they will be buried alive in the remaining hot sand. Worse than ISis. Isis are dilettantes that did not pass thru the school of American democracy

That is simple have paper ballots and have everyone that votes have an electronic fingerprint taken at the time of registry and at the voting booth and anyone found to be voting more then once, voting in the wrong place or illegally would have a mandatory 5 year prison sentence with no possibility of parole, clemency, or pardon and loose their voting rights forever.
If these were in effect in 20088 and 2012 Obama would not be president an Hillary would not stand a chance.

Look at my above answer about Voting. It will answer your questions.
Are you living in Dream Land? Did you hear Trump, he started the Rumor that President Obama wasn’t born in the United States, and he was. In Hawaii in 1962. Hawaii became a State in 1959. He finally stated as such at the Debate where Hillary Clinton wipe the floor with him, and he still flapping his jowls. Well who knows maybe his new Russian born and raised person is now working on his campaign what else is he going to do hack into more? After all the DNC Emails were hacked and or added emails. After the DNC hack was done by Russia. Trump let go of his Russian born and raised Campaign Manager. Now he has another Russian, I wonder Why. There was that thing about Trump Owing the Russian Mafia lots of money. Maybe that’s the reason Trump Admires Russia so much and it’s Ruler Putin. Check out facts with http://www.snoops.com or even ask Google. Truth not Fiction.

Their proposal is absolutely unconstitutional. It would be last straw in solidifying federal control and destroying the last vestiges of state control. The federal government should help the states, not subvert them.

NO NO NO. The Government is like the saying “If you want to foul things up get a computer”
So if you want to foul things up get the government involved. The elections are suppose to run by the States. The only reason that we we don’t have voter ID is because the Government through the SCOTUS has gotten involved where the have no business getting involved.

Citizenship should be proven upon registration to vote. Voting should only be done only by paper ballots [to prevent hacking]. A fingerprint and picture ID should be required at the time of voting. This should not be a burden since picture ID is required in banks, and entry into many Federal/state buildings. Voting criteria is within the province and discretion of the states and should remain that way. The Federal Government should keep out of it since because the government’s only objective is to control and probably direct the election results. Federal Government [House, Senate, President and SCOTUS] is interfering with state sovereignty, personal sovereignty and destroying our liberties with their interference.

First of all incompetence of feds have us in a huge mess. Incompotance in Social Security, Vet treatment, Milatary treatment of personnel and public education and Obama care. Federal government needs to shrink to the size of the Constitutional boundries as the founders intended. This is the best reason we need people in there who actually believe in the principals of the Constitution and the bill of rights.

Quite frankly, I’m more inclined to believe the Homeland Security Department headed by Jeh Johnson under the direction of the Obama Administration and the liberal socialist communist democrat party is the hacker rather than anyone else. Asking any department under the direction of Barack Obama to insure honesty in the voting is like assigning Wiley Fox to guard your chicken coop (or Bill Clinton to watch the hen house).

The federal government should not run our elections, everything they stick their fingers in turns out bad for Americans look at obamacare just to name one, if the feds run the elections then you might as well stay at home and not worry about voting because the outcome will be selected long before any election, the American government has become so corrupt they cannot be trusted to run an honest election and it seems the current government is running America the same way when the voice of the people is ignored just because the president has a pen and mandates into law what he wants by executive action, this must never happen we already have rigged debates have had rigged elections and if the federal government takes over say goodbye to all your freedom because we will live in a total dictatorship!

Just another way to make sure HRC wins the election.
If the DOJ can’t be trusted to prosecute a known liar and inept Sec of State who put top secret info at risk. what do you think they will do with the elections. Another blow to State’s rights where election procedure is concerned. It will be easier to slip those illegal immigrant voters and dead people voting thru the polls. OH and VA have already seen election fraud and early voting hasn’t started yet!
Thousands of ballots for HRC in election ballot boxes sitting in a warehouse were discovered in OH. Dead people on the rolls in VA were discovered. Of course, according to the DEMS, voter fraud does not exist or is caused by Republicans!

No federal control, I worked polls many years. Every registered voter receives a. Form telling them where to vote. To work for Feds you must be finger printed. Why not voting. Fill out a form. Then vote on machine, compare. Later

This is how fascism arises. Well, It’s partly how it arises. First you need fascists, namely unprincipled, godless people, everywhere, and crucially, close to levers of power. Powerful influencers, like members of the Chicago School, are allowed to purvey their poison. It’s sort of a no win situation, when there’s so many unprincipled people at all levels of society. If politicians were caring, they’d tell Chicago School types that they are free to sell what the crap they want and they (politicians) are free to not buy it. But that didn’t happen and so, with the rise of neoliberalism, we got ruined economies. With ruined societies, you get monsters who see in that an opportunity to create trouble for others, just because. They come along, and especially if they are charismatic (have something about them that makes them interesting), and tell the hurting people that they have the solutions and it involves getting rid of the old system and coming up with a new one and new rules. It’s plausible, but people’s lack of wariness about (imperfect) human saviours, the situation is ripe for catastrophe if the saviours are in effect people with bad intentions. And you’re a person with bad intentions if all that you do is really only about you and your glory and prosperity.

The fake saviours (like Trump and Hitler) indeed are ready to jettison the old system. They don’t talk about how the old system was built with input from all, and not just the 1%. And they don’t talk about how the new system won’t involve input from the people, but only the exploitative, unprincipled 1%. The result of their acts of creative destruction is a sick society where citizens are divided, against each other, against ‘others’ outside their borders, in fear of the brutal state and unwilling to fight for civil rights that were taken from them in the name of national security and so on. And when the state ‘liberates’ capitalists and capital, that results in a impoverishment of the people, for business prioritizes profit making over society building and can ‘only’ create inequality as they pursue the vile maxim of ‘All for ourselves and nothing for others’. Who do you think you’re fooling Rex Tillerson?

This clamour by establishment heads to view the electoral system as something needing protection in the name of national security is not mysterious. It’s part of the ‘new and improved’ social order that fascists like Trump are selling us whether we are buying it or not. The irony is that they are absolutely right. Clearly, The electoral system’s integrity is essential to democracy. But in this upside down world, they view an already compromised and corrupt electoral system as democratic and to be protected. And the ‘nation’ that is the focus of the ‘national security’ concern here is not the nation that includes the people. It’s more like Robert Frank’s “Richistan.”

Similarly, With the attention on the fake news that is being labelled a threat to national security. The establishment is desperate to protect the fake news that it depends on for it’s survival, especially as alternative sources of info (not all which are true) have exposed so much of the corruption of our fake saviours. And so the establishment will go after the real news, calling it fake, and say that it’s to protect national security, which will be true, once we understand that the nation being protected is something like Richistan. I absolutely agree that fake news is an actual threat to national security. And I’ve long called for states that are trying to show solidarity with their people rather than foreign investors and governments to act accordingly. I still feel that way. But it looks like the fascists are preempting that move.